Forget the Ferrari Luce, this HP laptop collab looks more authentically Ferrari – and only 4999 will ever be made

Last week Ferrari made its biggest announcement in years: its first electric car is the Ferrari Luce EV. But the general public reaction might be best summed up in a single word: yikes.

If people weren’t complaining about the very concept of an electric Ferrari, they were aghast at the design. And to be fair, the Luce EV wasn’t designed by Ferrari’s usual team – but one headed up by former head guff huffer at Apple, Jony Ive.

Given that the Luce EV costs £450,000 / $640,000, it’s fair to say it relies on that classic Ferrari desirability. It may not have enough of it though.

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Weirder still, I actually think this just-announced HP laptop may have more of that special tangy Ferrari sauce than the auto-maker's new electric car.

And that’s not actually as mad as it sounds, as this PC was made in collaboration with Ferrari Design Studio, not the chap that gave us the cute and colourful iMac from the late ’90s – much as we bloody love those things.

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This is the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC, a laptop that has been in the works for around two years. The aim was to combine all of HP’s practical know-how and as much Ferrari flavour and design sensibility as possible to make one of the most desirable ultraportable laptops of all time.

HP and the Ferrari Design Studio have gone all-out with this one, and I'm not even talking about the specs here. There’s an excessive attention to detail that frankly goes far beyond what separates a bad laptop from a good one.

But then you need to get excessive when you’re talking about the rarefied air of an almost $6,000 laptop (that's circa £4,500 by conversion) where part of the appeal is it’s only made in a run of 4999 – mirroring Ferrari's cars.

So, have the teams pulled it off? I went to see this fancy new HP x Ferrari laptop collab – which, by the way, is called the 'HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC' – to find out.

Haptic touchpad: Ferrari style

The centrepiece of external design from the user’s view is the expanse below the keyboard. It’s a blank and at the same time completely eye-catching piece of textured glass with a sub-surface foil finish layer that shimmers as it catches the light. The idea is that it evokes the finish of one of Ferrari’s shinier cars, like the Scuderia.

You’ll notice there is no outline of a touchpad here, but there is one here nevertheless. It’s because the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC has a haptic pad, which uses a motor to emulate the feel of a mechanical clicker. But there’s no need for any actual motion.

These kind of invisible pads have proved pretty controversial in the past, notably in laptops like the Dell XPS 13. Here, though, HP uses a light bar in the Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC that subtly shows you where the lateral borders of the pad are. Neat, right?

However, the really eye-catching stuff is found on the underside of the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC. That’s right, the bit you never really look at.

Functional minimalism meets pure excess

There’s a lot going on down here. We have a great mass of carbon fibre composite below an oversize viewing window that lets you see a bunch of the internal components, including the fan system and cooling pipes. It’s all based on the exposed engine bay design of Ferrari performance cars.

And from a laptop-reviewer’s perspective, the really unusual part is what this is made of, and how HP hasn’t jammed all sorts of plastic or composite seams and bars between these panels. That viewing window? It’s a single piece of Corning Gorilla Glass in which 2000 holes – not all of the same size, by the way – are drilled in order to allow for air intake.

In the everyday world of laptop design, you tend to use more forgiving, or at least cheaper, materials for these more intricate parts. But the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC isn’t about that life.

Just check out some of the other charming but ultimately unnecessary-from-a-practical-perspective bits down here. There’s the unique number out of 4999 of your laptop stamped on the cooling pipe, which is of course also Ferrari red.

A mini-map of Ferrari’s private Fiorano test track is printed on a heat shield, alongside the coordinates for the Ferrari workshop. The HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC is packed with evidence of both quiet and loud excess.

There’s more of this around the back too, where the heat outlet is a single piece of machined aluminium inspired by the Ferrari F76 “virtual” hypercar.

The funny part is it’s more real than the actual car, which was a purely digital 2025 project made in service to an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) – and as such has long since been consigned to the dustbin zone of Ferrari history in our minds.

Ferrari laptop: Specs and substance

One of the parts that may surprise when you take a closer look at this laptop is how “quiet” the Ferrari branding really is here. There’s the classic Cavallino Rampante ('little prancing horse', as it translates) logo on the bottom, and another small one that half blends into the corner of the rest below the keyboard.

The lid? You’ll only find HP up there. The HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC is a strangely humble show-off.

But let’s get to some more of the substance, not only because I've actually had a try of this exclusive laptop, but because some of the best stuff is here too.

First up, the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC has a great keyboard, with more key travel than an Apple MacBook. It even uses Ferrari’s own font on those keycaps.

Taking a pinch (and thankfully only a pinch) of inspiration from gaming laptops, the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC also has per-key lighting. You guessed it, they are red by default, but you can pick any colour combo you like, including some of those more obnoxious LED animations you’ll recognise if you’ve ever owned a high-end gaming notebook.

The screen is a 3K resolution, 14-inch OLED touch display, with a tandem panel design that lets it reach peaks of 700 nits.

There are no spec options to choose from here. Each HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC has 64GB RAM and a 1TB SSD, while the processor is an Intel X7 Ultra Series 3 chipset. It’s no new-fangled Nvidia Spark or Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite – both fresh off the start line – but is another area where the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC is more classic in its bones, for all its other flashy parts.

The weight is telling too. At 1.382kg, HP and the Ferrari Design Studio have clearly not obsessively spent months shaving off every possible gramme. It’s light enough for ultraportable use, easily. But the focus seems to be on looking and feeling the best, not to lower weight for a more impressive-looking spec list – and that’s no bad thing.

The HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari PC is available from June 12, priced at $5599 in the USA. It'll also be available in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland. But only 4999 will ever been made – so it might be a trick to obtain one!